Deep in wormhole space, sleeper sites are not the only engagements that see escalation at the introduction of capitals. A quiet day can get loud very quickly, and so it did for Sleeper Social Club (SSC) on March 4th at around 20:00. Their “cozy” home system and connections nearby were scanned and it was discovered that a connection to No Holes Barred’s (NOHO) home system was available. A NOHO HIC was guarding the connection ensuring that SSC caps would be difficult to field, so a fleet of T3s augmented with a HIC, HACs, Recons, and Guardians was formed and sent to check out what was to be found.
Three T3s [Edit: Actual NOHO initial gang size was closer to 12 T3s] were discovered in the C5 connected to NOHO’s C6. SSC introduced themselves and not long after a NOHO Archon jumped into them to rep the two Proteuses and ECM Tengu T3s. The Archon’s reps were broken and a DPS Proteus and Tengu were killed. A cloaky Proteus managed to duck out for the time being.
SSC, knowing that NOHO was getting ready to make a real run at them, jumped past the first Archon into NOHO’s system to find a C6 magnetar wormhole staring back at them. SSC ran into a small response fleet of more T3s with another Archon supporting. They started burning down the T3s as fast as they could with their HIC bubbling the hell out of them.
Things got more interesting. As the T3s were going down, more carriers landed on the field and the original one jumped back in behind them, collapsing the hole back to SSC’s home system.
[05:37:23] James Arget > With multiple Triage on grid, it was a matter of switching targets as fast as we could while the neut Legions put pressure on their Carriers.
SSC’s HIC went down.
[05:38:49] James Arget > We swapped to Dreads as soon as they started siege cycles to give us the full 5 minutes of cycle to kill them, and were able to do so regularly with the massive damage bonus.
[05:40:20] James Arget > In desperation they even reshipped a Revelation pilot (who had just lost a revelation) into a shield Rapier to try to web down subcaps for their remaining Moroses, but he was alphaed off field.
The damage coming across at this point was manageable for SSC.
[05:41:36] James Arget > pretty much. we had very solid guardians.
[05:42:00] James Arget > Between dreads we killed T3s as range gave us the chance. They were hesitant to maintain triage, and when out they were vulnerable to range damps.
[05:42:45] James Arget > In the end their last Moros was about 60km off the main fleet, after he went down they bailed and warped out all but their last Archon and a last Legion was tackled.
[05:43:38] James Arget > We put all webs on the Legion, and as we were grinding down the Archon, the Legion pilot… ejected. Comms got interesting for a moment, but the order was given to REP the legion.
[05:44:01] James Arget > Damage was pulled, Archon was killed, our Devoter pilot logged in, warped to the Legion… and boarded it.[05:45:04] James Arget > we had the field, and after a few loose trigger fingers we were told to leave the capital wrecks intact for NOHO to recover what capital mods they could, since we couldn’t take them with us.
[05:47:25] James Arget > GFs were exchanged in local (along with cries of James Arget CSM8!), We evacced into a C2, but it only lead to nullsec. NOHO were super awesome wormhole bros though, and joined our fleet with a scout and gave us a path to highsec.
[05:47:41] James Arget > We even killed an Onyx and some ceptors who were camping for NOHO capsules that were returning from k space after beign podded
To top this fight off, the pilots that were cut off after the first Archon collapsed the hole were able to scan down and kill the last Proteus left in the first link.
[05:50:18] James Arget > Huge props to NOHO for bringing a fight after that initial skirmish, and there was nothing but respect from both sides.
Apparently local does have its use in wormhole space: “gf”
There were a few tense moments with the loss of the HIC and some Proteuses running out of ammo, but according to James, “…our reps were strong enough that worst case we would have just had to abandon the field and leave. they were losing subcaps and wouldn’t have been able to hold point if we’d chosen to disengage”
NOHO gets some more props as well, “they managed to have one [carrier] coast out of triage and web it off field”
But wait, there’s more!
Later in the night, Semper Ubi Sub Ubi of www.downthepipe-wh.com got in touch, telling of a gang of caps bashing a POS in SUSU’s home chain.
[06:11:23] James Arget > …Semper Ubi Sub Ubi of www.downthepipe-wh.com fame contacted us a few hours later asking for help with some capitals
[06:11:51] James Arget > half our fleet got crashed trying to get through the good exit, so we sent guardians and neuts out to meed them as they tacled four carriers with t1 cruisers!This left SSC with a fleet split into “near” and “far” as they made their way to the fight.
[06:12:04] James Arget > it was Nulli Secunda, for some odd reason, who were bashing a POS.
[06:12:36] James Arget > two carriers initially escaped, but came back to try to kill SUSU tackle… as the first part of our fleet landed, and spread points to everyone+bubbled
[06:13:09] James Arget > meanwhile, it seems SUSU had not just batphoned, but had broken into the switchboard, and we found ourselves opening fleet to Exhale, Surely You’re Joking, and Existential Agony
[06:13:52] James Arget > Normally, these are all people we shoot on sight, but we all piled onto SUSU comms and most of us went about 18 jumps to get to the fight… and still about ten pilots couldn’t make it in through the C3 connectionThose that arrived initially were enough to take out the subcaps and start working on breaking the spider tanking caps. Soon after, the “far” group made it to the connection into wormhole space along with Exhale, collapsing the hole behind them and trapping the already doomed caps inside the dark and shark infested wormhole system.
[06:15:19] James Arget > SUSU gets great props for getting tackle and killing initial support with what they had, and their publicity is fantastic apparently for getting so many other groups to come pile through their chain to give them a hand.
The company you keep
When asked about the “unusual” alliance with Exhale, Surely You’re Joking, Existential Agony, and Sleeper Social Club, James cheerfully responded:
“nope, we all knew this was a good spirited social event, and everyone left without incident… I think the only friendly fire was a HIC shooting at a blackbird, which does about nothing.”
And apparently the only contact with Nully during the ordeal was, “just ‘GF’s…they got caught trying to steal from the cookie jar, and had their hand cut off.”
James Arget is currently running for CSM8 as a wormhole candidate and some information on that can be found here. Check it out and be sure to vote.
[06:24:47] James Arget > it’s great to see wspace corps pull together against our common enemy: anyone who isn’t a wspace corp
- Howard Roark
nice propaganda. Genuinely looks like you had fun, is this a typical event on a sunday night? Do they happen very often?
I, like a lot of people, have zero wormhole experience, and am genuinely interested if this happens very much.
NO!
but it happens, rarely, but happens to the good wh corps.
To be fair I could probably google it and find out what I need to know, but I find myself with a whole bunch of questions now….
Like… It was mentioned about going 18 jumps to get to a fight… presumably thats through WH space… which means you must have some kind of map. So do you use like an alliance WH map tool, which people update as new WHs are found…? It must be pretty time consuming, but I guess once you get used to it, it can be done in no time, like anything else.
Yes, we use mapping tools. It's to the point now where I feel more lost in k-space than in w-space.
SSC has it's own mapping tool based off of Wormhole Space, of which we have made a brand new and shiny version that's available for the public as well at forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts…
Those 18 jumps were through different known space connections. While it's more than possible to have a wormhole chain that long, it's rather tough to manage it due to the ever changing nature of w-space and as such chains longer than 10 jumps are extremely rare. The mapper tools themselves are very easy and quick to use, once you get used to how they work.
As for the guy asking if this happens often… fights this good don't happen that often, many of our guys (SSC) said that this was the best fight they've been involved with in a long time, some claimed it to be the best ever. We do however regularily get good smaller fights where the amount of capitals involved is at most 1-2 per side. Fighting balls deep in someone's home system like that and coming out as victors is almost unheard of when the opponent can push capital after a capital against you.
Thanks mate
"NOHO were super awesome wormhole bros though, and joined our fleet with a scout and gave us a path to highsec."
Nothing but respect for this group.
They showed a ton of class. This is why wspace is best space. Blow up billions, shake hands.
Lol, sucking each other cocks are we?
I have a special hard one for you also, come put your mouths around it!
Oh hai, you must be one of the Blue Donut retards from CFC/HBC.
Go back to your little planned "Thunderdome" conflicts, your station games, and your blob warfare. Go back to your risk averse ratting operations, and your boredom, your lack of "gudfites".
On any normal day any one of these wormhole entities would be blowing each other up, but lo and behold, anybody who comes from nullsex will get one swift collective kick right into their rat botting, AFK highsec mining, badges.
Some of those noho fits…my eyes…
Ouch, down voted by a plated rev pilot?
He refitted for Bulkheads for extra tank to coast out of Siege to catch reps
Nulli deciding to go to wh space to live in? Lose caps much that way.
Incorrect. Executive Outcomes was a corporation of Transmission Lost before they split. After the debacle, they decided to join Nulli (for whatever god awful reason) and then destroy the tower of another previous TLOST group.
killboard.nullisecunda.com/?a=kill_detail&…
The irony is, that as much as local was mostly filled with "gf" it was also blessed with a couple cries of "Welcome to WH space!" Only after the kills did we get what had just transpired and things just became stupidly hilarious.
Except executive outcomes are CDC pets and not in nulli wtf are you smoking.
Pretty sure he ment Executive Override Inc.
Bah, got those mixed up. At least someone caught it and bothered to fix it instead of simply, "wtf are you smoking".
The fuck are those guys [Executive Overrides] thinking? Looks like someone needs to get evicted from w-space…
fcftw.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll…
BR of the main event.
Just noticed that the main fight of the evening was missing entirely, with just the minor bit of the scout kills being included, so here's the full battlereport of how it went down against Noho. fcftw.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll…
The support we got to take out these targets was AWESOME! This was the biggest set of targets our small 40 man corp have ever engaged. When we found our targets, we called everyone who would answer. We aren't part of an alliance and prefer to be a wild card for other groups. Since our focus isn't PVE and making money, most of our pilots are poor (WH money wise).
We do the best we can with what we got and say FK it and dive in! We didn't know what kind of support we were going to get until after we had tackle. We had some intel that some SSC friends where 6 jumps out from the high sec entrance. Other than that we didn't have a firm commitment from any other people we asked. We just said, "Hay if you guys want to help, come to this High sec, we will get you warp ins"
The support we got was totally unbelievable. This is why I love the WH community so much, they put aside any kind of differences and just GO FOR IT. Just for the lols and thrill of the hunt.
— Longinius Spear – CEO of SUSU
Just a couple quick corrections to set the details straight. The sieged tower belonged to The Kairos Syndicate [KAIRS] of Existential Anxiety [ANGST], formerly of Transmission Lost [LOST]. We (KAIRS) had abandoned that tower when the alliance started to go awry and quite simply, Executive Override's [VETO] easiest way to rid their system of it was just to burn it down. Executive Override has also left [LOST] and since joined S2N, hence all the confusion on the report.
But, good catch, and glad to see what sounded like a great fight come out of an otherwise mundane situation.
Was great to get the invite thanks to the SUSU guys and SSC for a good time o7 — Exhale.
Props for the civil attitude of all those involved in the action. Nice fights are awesome, but shaking hands afterwards is even better. ^^
Watch the main fight www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNbn0OS87Vw
got a copyright notice when i opened it, change the OST.
Good attitude and sportsmanship guys. It's refreshing to read an article like this. Thumbs up.
And my Booster Even got on the killmail